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Incredible stuff from Democratic Party grandee Paul Begala on NPR this morning, in response to the Autopsy Report, excusing all of Kamala's failures in the '24 election, claiming she had the best debate since Abraham Lincoln. They really want her to be the nominee again.

Incredible stuff from Democratic Party grandee Paul Begala on NPR this morning, in response to the Autopsy Report, excusing all of Kamala's failures in the '24 election, claiming she had the best debate since Abraham Lincoln. They really want her to be the nominee again.

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I think maybe something a little more understated

I think maybe something a little more understated

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I really don't dislike or distrust Flock specifically, but there are real, foundational privacy concerns at stake here. The sanctity of one's privacy, knowing that you are not always being watched, does not require justification. It is a good unto itself.
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I really don't dislike or distrust Flock specifically, but there are real, foundational privacy concerns at stake here. The sanctity of one's privacy, knowing that you are not always being watched, does not require justification. It is a good unto itself.

Jonathan Keeperman

113,624 views • 11 days ago

Not even 2 minutes into the Rogan/Murray/Smith video and it's no wonder Murray is not being received well. In the first 30 seconds he immediately cuts off the friendly banter and starts interrogating Rogan about the anti-Israel slant in his content. He takes on a really grating, officious ,"just asking questions" tone, when, just like he accuses others of doing, he already knows the answer he wants to hear and is only using the faux-curious approach to smuggle in his criticism. This brief clip then ends with Murray saying: "I'm interested in your selection of guests because you're the world's number one podcast." Not only is this a kind of passive-aggressive concern-trolling, and a subtle implication that Rogan has neglected his moral obligation to act "responsibly" as an influential public figure, it also gets the causation EXACTLY backward. Rogan has the world's number one podcast precisely because of his guest selection, and precisely because the views he platforms are effectively embargoed from mainstream media and Rogan is willing to hear them out. The rest of the media is trying to "teach" it's audience something. People are sick of that kind of didacticism. Rogan is just letting you "listen." Most of Rogan's listeners won't even get to the substance of the arguments before (rightly) determining this guy fundamentally misunderstands the audience he's speaking to and misunderstands the context he's speaking to them in.
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Not even 2 minutes into the Rogan/Murray/Smith video and it's no wonder Murray is not being received well. In the first 30 seconds he immediately cuts off the friendly banter and starts interrogating Rogan about the anti-Israel slant in his content. He takes on a really grating, officious ,"just asking questions" tone, when, just like he accuses others of doing, he already knows the answer he wants to hear and is only using the faux-curious approach to smuggle in his criticism. This brief clip then ends with Murray saying: "I'm interested in your selection of guests because you're the world's number one podcast." Not only is this a kind of passive-aggressive concern-trolling, and a subtle implication that Rogan has neglected his moral obligation to act "responsibly" as an influential public figure, it also gets the causation EXACTLY backward. Rogan has the world's number one podcast precisely because of his guest selection, and precisely because the views he platforms are effectively embargoed from mainstream media and Rogan is willing to hear them out. The rest of the media is trying to "teach" it's audience something. People are sick of that kind of didacticism. Rogan is just letting you "listen." Most of Rogan's listeners won't even get to the substance of the arguments before (rightly) determining this guy fundamentally misunderstands the audience he's speaking to and misunderstands the context he's speaking to them in.

Lomez

2,071,261 views • 1 year ago

I have said previously I think the anti-tech/anti-data center sentiment is largely misdirected. But on the Flock question, despite the law enforcement benefits, I am more much more sympathetic to the skeptics. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ discuss at length on the latest episode.
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I have said previously I think the anti-tech/anti-data center sentiment is largely misdirected. But on the Flock question, despite the law enforcement benefits, I am more much more sympathetic to the skeptics. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ discuss at length on the latest episode.

Jonathan Keeperman

47,253 views • 11 days ago

"Empathy" is often used to explain bleeding-heart liberalism, but this is exactly backwards. It is precisely the liberal's lack of empathy, his failure to imagine the mindset of the malicious anti-social criminal, that drives his misguided politics. Important to realize this.
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"Empathy" is often used to explain bleeding-heart liberalism, but this is exactly backwards. It is precisely the liberal's lack of empathy, his failure to imagine the mindset of the malicious anti-social criminal, that drives his misguided politics. Important to realize this.

Jonathan Keeperman

232,876 views • 3 months ago

I tell the story of a conversation I had with a prominent Con. Inc politician who nonetheless has adopted the online right's most hawkish views on immigration, why that might signal the end of our "revolution," and the lessons to be drawn from Hitler about this.
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I tell the story of a conversation I had with a prominent Con. Inc politician who nonetheless has adopted the online right's most hawkish views on immigration, why that might signal the end of our "revolution," and the lessons to be drawn from Hitler about this.

Lomez

80,148 views • 1 month ago

Perhaps the most significant political asymmetry is that the left has the unilateral power to exact social punishment on its enemies. This is why establishment cons still defer moral authority to the NYT. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ discuss this in the context of the SPLC indictment.
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Perhaps the most significant political asymmetry is that the left has the unilateral power to exact social punishment on its enemies. This is why establishment cons still defer moral authority to the NYT. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ discuss this in the context of the SPLC indictment.

Lomez

163,141 views • 4 months ago

This really is less about Flock and more about the sense of being constantly watched, constantly under the eye of the whole world. Safety can't be the only thing we are optimizing for.
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This really is less about Flock and more about the sense of being constantly watched, constantly under the eye of the whole world. Safety can't be the only thing we are optimizing for.

Jonathan Keeperman

16,138 views • 11 days ago

The left establishment has always tolerated its vanguard, sometimes to its detriment, but on balance as a useful political force. Can the right learn a similar lesson as its institutions are reformed in the post Trump era? This is the counterbalance to the clip below.
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The left establishment has always tolerated its vanguard, sometimes to its detriment, but on balance as a useful political force. Can the right learn a similar lesson as its institutions are reformed in the post Trump era? This is the counterbalance to the clip below.

Lomez

39,116 views • 1 month ago

Nice little Yellowstone cutthroat. Very small stream in a narrow canyon. About as big a fish as you can get here. Deceptively hard cast (especially with one hand holding a phone). Fish sitting at very end of the run where fast water wants to grab the line.
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Nice little Yellowstone cutthroat. Very small stream in a narrow canyon. About as big a fish as you can get here. Deceptively hard cast (especially with one hand holding a phone). Fish sitting at very end of the run where fast water wants to grab the line.

Lomez

36,560 views • 1 month ago

Why isn’t it a national scandal that Mamdani is meeting with a friend of the Blind Sheikh? Why do normies speak about mass demographic change only in hushed tones, if at all? Because they’ve been robbed of the vocabulary to talk about it, and are afraid of what it means.
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Why isn’t it a national scandal that Mamdani is meeting with a friend of the Blind Sheikh? Why do normies speak about mass demographic change only in hushed tones, if at all? Because they’ve been robbed of the vocabulary to talk about it, and are afraid of what it means.

Lomez

32,339 views • 1 month ago

George Floyd's death was the pretext for a political revolution––supported up and down the left, from their radical fringes to the "respectable" centrists of the Democrat Party–– and whose BLM-inspired ideology of racial tyranny still dominates mainstream institutions to this day. That pretext was lie. Their revolution is a blight on all of American Life. It must be extracted from its roots and its idols burned to the ground. It starts by telling the truth about what happened to George Floyd and exonerating Derek Chauvin.
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George Floyd's death was the pretext for a political revolution––supported up and down the left, from their radical fringes to the "respectable" centrists of the Democrat Party–– and whose BLM-inspired ideology of racial tyranny still dominates mainstream institutions to this day. That pretext was lie. Their revolution is a blight on all of American Life. It must be extracted from its roots and its idols burned to the ground. It starts by telling the truth about what happened to George Floyd and exonerating Derek Chauvin.

Lomez

82,780 views • 3 months ago

One of my grand theories of Trump is that he is a living rearticulation of the End of History, that his presidency opens an alternative path from the one we took after the Cold War, reversing its mistakes and cutting the loose ends it left dangling. I remain a Plan Truster.
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One of my grand theories of Trump is that he is a living rearticulation of the End of History, that his presidency opens an alternative path from the one we took after the Cold War, reversing its mistakes and cutting the loose ends it left dangling. I remain a Plan Truster.

Jonathan Keeperman

135,197 views • 6 months ago

Our long lost Burrito Discourse episode from last week, once thought lost to the cloud, has been recovered. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ and I discuss what is really at stake, not the Cost of Living per se, but the cost of living a good life, which is in increasingly low supply.
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Our long lost Burrito Discourse episode from last week, once thought lost to the cloud, has been recovered. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ and I discuss what is really at stake, not the Cost of Living per se, but the cost of living a good life, which is in increasingly low supply.

Jonathan Keeperman

19,968 views • 22 days ago

I explain to Richard Hanania and Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ the concept of the Chud Veto, coined by RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS, and perhaps the most important concept in modern political theory.
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I explain to Richard Hanania and Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ the concept of the Chud Veto, coined by RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS, and perhaps the most important concept in modern political theory.

Lomez

74,008 views • 3 months ago

Back in 2015 there was a debate between GMU economist and open-borders advocate Bryan Caplan and his colleague Garett Jones who cautioned that immigrants tend to import all the beliefs and pathologies of their home nations, and that if we want to preserve America qua America, and importantly the strength of its institutions, we need take a far more prudent approach to who we let in to the country and at what volume. Caplan, and mass immigration proponents at places like CATO and elsewhere, who think of immigration as an unalloyed economic good (which somehow became conventional wisdom), dismissed these concerns––when not simply waving them away as the bigoted ranting of evil bad racists––by claiming, as Caplan does in the clip below, that 1) first generation immigrants don't really hold any political power (so who really cares?) and 2) second generation immigrants and beyond simply assimilate to the prevailing norms of the country (as they have in the past). Now that a fully westernized Indian by way of Uganda is leading a coalition of non-natives to impose socialism on our country's biggest city and economic power center, do they have any revisions they want to make? Do they think maybe it's time to reconsider the conventional wisdom? Do they think maybe, as Garett Jones warned us, that mass immigration doesn't just spontaneously produce Americans, that there is no magic dirt, and that since a country is its people, when the people change (or *are changed*) the country changes with them?
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Back in 2015 there was a debate between GMU economist and open-borders advocate Bryan Caplan and his colleague Garett Jones who cautioned that immigrants tend to import all the beliefs and pathologies of their home nations, and that if we want to preserve America qua America, and importantly the strength of its institutions, we need take a far more prudent approach to who we let in to the country and at what volume. Caplan, and mass immigration proponents at places like CATO and elsewhere, who think of immigration as an unalloyed economic good (which somehow became conventional wisdom), dismissed these concerns––when not simply waving them away as the bigoted ranting of evil bad racists––by claiming, as Caplan does in the clip below, that 1) first generation immigrants don't really hold any political power (so who really cares?) and 2) second generation immigrants and beyond simply assimilate to the prevailing norms of the country (as they have in the past). Now that a fully westernized Indian by way of Uganda is leading a coalition of non-natives to impose socialism on our country's biggest city and economic power center, do they have any revisions they want to make? Do they think maybe it's time to reconsider the conventional wisdom? Do they think maybe, as Garett Jones warned us, that mass immigration doesn't just spontaneously produce Americans, that there is no magic dirt, and that since a country is its people, when the people change (or *are changed*) the country changes with them?

Jonathan Keeperman

149,540 views • 10 months ago

After Mystery Grove posted about Homestead being another Yellowstone, I looked up what the new based conservative Angel Studios is up to, and their next theatrical release is a Hillary Clinton/Samantha Power State Department wet dream fantasy about a "trailblazing" all-girls science team from Afghanistan This trailer has to be seen to be believed.
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After Mystery Grove posted about Homestead being another Yellowstone, I looked up what the new based conservative Angel Studios is up to, and their next theatrical release is a Hillary Clinton/Samantha Power State Department wet dream fantasy about a "trailblazing" all-girls science team from Afghanistan This trailer has to be seen to be believed.

Lomez

254,260 views • 1 year ago

Are you familiar with the concept of "milling around?" On Rufo and Lopez this week, Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ and I discuss California fraud among other things. I share my recent experience with several BART employees serving no purpose whatsoever but to "mill around."
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Are you familiar with the concept of "milling around?" On Rufo and Lopez this week, Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ and I discuss California fraud among other things. I share my recent experience with several BART employees serving no purpose whatsoever but to "mill around."

Lomez

74,785 views • 4 months ago

On this week’s show, Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ and I dig into the Somali fraud rings and what they reveal about our naive, and morally negligent immigration regime. In this clip, I explain Moynihan’s Law of the Canadian Border and discuss Garett Jones’s Culture Transplant.
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On this week’s show, Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ and I dig into the Somali fraud rings and what they reveal about our naive, and morally negligent immigration regime. In this clip, I explain Moynihan’s Law of the Canadian Border and discuss Garett Jones’s Culture Transplant.

Lomez

122,458 views • 9 months ago

There are two rants, schizophrenically in opposition to each other. The first, here is that tech skeptics are directionally correct that modern tech and modernity at large have atomizing effects on people, but with AI, the only way out is through (optimistically, maybe)
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There are two rants, schizophrenically in opposition to each other. The first, here is that tech skeptics are directionally correct that modern tech and modernity at large have atomizing effects on people, but with AI, the only way out is through (optimistically, maybe)

Lomez

44,053 views • 3 months ago

Most on the right don't understand the distinctions between woke and Marxism. Tempting to say: "It's all the same thing." Sort of, but not really. The differences matter a lot as anti-woke Marxists like Walter Benn Michaels (below) has been arguing for years. I explain:
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Most on the right don't understand the distinctions between woke and Marxism. Tempting to say: "It's all the same thing." Sort of, but not really. The differences matter a lot as anti-woke Marxists like Walter Benn Michaels (below) has been arguing for years. I explain:

Lomez

34,332 views • 2 months ago